This point is the weakness of the Western Turks, and it is also the weakness of Persia and other countries, they expect the Tang Dynasty to send troops, it is precisely for this reason, first, the Tang Dynasty, the suzerain, has always been neat, think about Silla, Silla was attacked by Baekje and the Wa Kingdom, and the revenge that the Tang Dynasty immediately launched made the whole world look sideways, although the Silla royal family was wiped out, so the Tang Dynasty also included the land of Silla into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but it made everyone see a fact, that is, don't make the Tang Dynasty angry. Otherwise, the disaster of destroying the country is not far away, think about the fact that Wadao and Datang are thousands of miles away from the ocean, and they will still be cleaned up, Xue Yantuo will also be destroyed, and the Western Turks will not dare to compete with Datang before they have the strength to compete with Datang.

Negotiations are arduous, all kinds of means emerge in an endless stream, whether it is blackmail, blackmail, shameless, in short, what tricks are beneficial to Datang, we will use whatever tricks, Persia and other countries have never thought that diplomatic negotiations will make people so headaches. However, the Persian and Central Asian barbarians had no time, but Datang could afford to wait, and after a day of confrontation, everyone ate lunch in the negotiation room at noon, except for going to the toilet, almost no one left.

And the new students, too, were impressed, sitting in front of our butts like kindergarten dolls, watching us fight with the Persian and Central Asian barbarians.

"But we don't have that much copper, can we trade it with other resources? Like gold, or spices? The Persian prince made this request after squatting together with the envoys of the nations after lunch and deliberating for nearly half an hour.

I shook my head slowly: "Gold, I Datang is not short of spices, spices, I Datang also have it, what we need is iron and copper, don't you just increase the amount of mining?" ”

The Persian prince smiled bitterly: "Lord Fang, this mining is not something that can be mined, it takes time, a lot of time. In addition, we don't have enough iron ourselves, and if we use it for trading, we are afraid that we will not even be able to make arrows. "Crying poor, obviously crying poor.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, your difficulties, this official also understands, but I can't disobey the order given to the lower officials by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, we have to find a way to have the best of both worlds, so let's talk about it, this year, how much copper can you provide to my Datang?" I tapped my finger lightly on the table.

"One and a half million catties of copper, this is our limit. My lord, you think, my Persia and Datang are thousands of miles away, and the roads are not smooth, and it is also the limit of our waiting to be able to transport so much copper to Datang. "The prince of Persia spoke to me only after exchanging words with the envoys of various countries. Then the Persian prince was afraid that I would not agree, so he hurriedly said: "We are also willing to send 300 purebred horses to Datang every year." ”

------------------------------------------------ I pretended to think about it: "No, five hundred, of which two-thirds are mares." I raised my fingers. In addition, since your mining technology can not meet the needs of my Datang, this, or else, a piece of copper ore land will be handed over to my Datang to offset other costs, as for mining, we will send people from the local area or ourselves to mine, and the transportation will also be responsible for my Datang, however, I hope that all countries can invest a certain amount of manpower and material resources to build a road from the Persian region to Dawan through the Kangju country, and my Datang will also fund the construction of a road from the Anxi Protectorate, through the Broken Leaf City, The road from Xiu Xun Zhou to Dawan. In this way, it can not only strengthen the connection between my Datang and the countries, but also make the trade between my Datang and the countries more convenient...... At that time, he could appear in the homes of the wealthy kings of the kingdoms...... "Every time I say a Tang specialty, the eyes of these people will light up, and in the end, their heads are already swinging up and down."

The Persian prince and others started with us every day from early in the morning, and fought until late at night, sometimes it was too late at night, so they had to stay in the inn near the Honglu Temple to rest, and we, too, were very disgusted and weeping, every day after the negotiation, I would hand over the remaining affairs and the relevant materials that need to be negotiated tomorrow to He Zheng and others to prepare, and I continued to instill diplomatic knowledge in Di Renjie, a group of newly assigned students in combination with the practice of the day, and almost every day I rested for no more than three hours.

And after daylight, Ben Gongzi had to act as the acting leader, spitting and arguing with the envoys of Persia and other countries, racking his brains to try to make Datang take a little more advantage.

Almost every penny is being fought for, and every inch of land is being demarcated, and the degree of hardship is no less than running dozens of rounds every day on the battlefield at the moment of life and death. Although I didn't have time to report the progress of the negotiations to Uncle Li once, Uncle Li could naturally hear from other people's mouths, and he would send people to encourage the people participating in the negotiations every three to five days, so that everyone's morale was maintained.

After nearly 20 days of negotiations, an agreement was finally reached that the Tang Empire would recruit 20,000 battle-hardened warriors in the name of the country to help Persia and Central Asian countries resist the invasion of the Great Food. The envoys of Persia and other countries would pay each warrior a hundred taels of money, and these warriors would go out to fight for Persia for five to ten years, and if there was no war after five years, these warriors would return to the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, at the junction of Yehuluo and the Persian Empire, a piece of land of about thousands of square miles was set aside for the Tang Dynasty to build a permanent Chicheng fortress belonging to the Tang Dynasty, which not only provided a garrison for the expeditionary force of the Tang Dynasty, but also became a distribution center for the future trade between the Tang Dynasty merchants and Persia and Central Asian countries and the Tang Dynasty. It also laid the first nail for the permanent garrison of Datang in Central Asia, and this area will become an enclave of Datang. Of course, it's just the time of chopping, and this son's heart is very clear. Hey, hey, hey...... In addition, near here, there is a large copper mine, which was agreed to be handed over to Datang for mining after consultation between Persia and other countries, and the mining period is unlimited. Anyway, the Central Asian countries hope that Datang can stay forever and ensure the tranquility of Central Asia, but Datang doesn't want to do this? As the so-called Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai, one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer.

Not only that, Kangju and other small countries also privately revealed a message to me through other foreign affairs officials, hoping that Datang would not patronize the interests of the big countries in Central Asia, and also take into account some of their small countries with a red heart to Datang.

Of course, Persia and other Central Asian countries agreed to build a wide road from the Persian Cavill Salt Desert to Dawan, and Datang also promised to build a wide road from Dawan to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire, so as to make bilateral trade more convenient.

Of course, if Persia and other countries still need to buy weapons and firearms from Datang in the future, they will have to continue to pay for it, this is certain.

In addition to sending 20,000 elites, the Tang Empire will also send a military observation group composed of middle and lower-level officers of the Tang Dynasty, which will not be less than 500 people, and will provide some corresponding training methods for various countries.

------------------------------------------------ Persia and other countries also purchased 30,000 sabers, 20,000 steel crossbows, 200,000 grenades, 50,000 rounds of ammunition and other related Datang weapons from the Tang Dynasty.

Persia and other countries will pay about 1.5 million catties of copper, 500 good horses, spices, precious stones, and other materials to our Datang within this year. In addition, I must also hand over 50,000 catties of Uzi steel to Datang, and there are dozens of craftsmen who specialize in building Uzi steel weapon technology. It will take a total of four years, and after four years, the compensation owed by Persia and the Central Asian countries to the Tang Dynasty will be completed.

Originally, I wanted to knock on the bamboo pole of 100,000 catties of Uzi steel every year, but I didn't expect the Persian prince to die and not give in, saying that they almost took off their pants for 50,000 catties, and gave us 100,000 catties, even if they were sold, they couldn't make up the amount, so I could only give up.

That is to say, in the past four years, Datang will probably be able to get roughly about 11 million yuan of resources from the hands of Persian Central Asian countries, not including Datang's acquisition of a military base in Central Asia, the right to permanently garrison troops, and a large-scale copper mine with reserves of about one to two hundred years for Datang to mine, and at least about one million catties of copper to Datang every year.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty can obtain greater benefits from Persia and Central Asian countries through official trade, and the long-term benefits will definitely exceed this 11 million times or more.

Because of the gap in the arms trade of the Tang Dynasty, in order to ensure that their interests are not violated, the surrounding countries of the Tang Dynasty will definitely form a kind of military spending growth that is almost like an arms race in later generations, and the part of the increase is naturally purchased from our Datang, after all, the sophistication of the weapons of the Tang Dynasty is far from being comparable to the surrounding barbarians.

(To be continued)